every time anything marc-related happens in this sport the comment sections of the race posts become tiny case studies into how 2015s impact continues to tarnish marc’s career but im supposed to like, not hate valentino for this. im supposed to be the bigger person and understand that vale did all this deliberately to a 22 year old for no reason and it continues to have such a visceral impact to this day and im supposed to say it’s fine. it’s not fine, though. it never will be. sorry that i cannot shut up about it, every time someone calls marc a cheater my blood starts boiling ❤️
JC fans: I bring a real life experience about unloved child.
The Author: I bring real life experience how to be human and navigate in society. Are you guys really JC fans? Why do you want him to be so incapable to mingle in real society? Are you sure you are not his haters instead?
I came across an old fic in ao3, saw the comment and laughed! The way the Author replied to one of JC's apologist is... Incredible. 🤣🤣
none of you understand the core theme of MDZS, because it tackles a fundamentally unpleasant subject. How debt is coercive, abusive, and corrodes a relationship, even if it might seem like it makes people tied to you. There's a reason that WWX's love confession contains a disclaimer about how his love for LWJ is not because he is indebted to him. There's a reason LWJ does not confess, or push WWX for a relationship. WWX is hypersensitive to the debts he owes, whether to the Jiangs, to the Wens, or even to Jin Ling. LWJ does not want a relationship where WWX feels the need to repay him. Thus, "no sorries, or thank yous between us".
Honestly, the reason a lot of people don't understand this theme is because they are stuck on the idea that WWX owes someone something, anything, they think his sensitivity to debt is something to be encouraged. But, it's not a good thing, and it eats away at him, bit by bit. That's the story of his first life. LWJ is his reward, essentially, and represents freedom from debt, a love that does not contain the subtle and corrosive coercion of debt
it’s clearly not going to be this year. it might not be next year. it might not even be the year after that. but mark my words, one day oscar piastri is going to stand on the top step of the podium at the australian grand prix and when that day comes you are all gonna get so sick of me because i will never ever shut up about it
quickfire questions with marc! translation below cut
q: the best race of your life?
a: ill tell you two that i didn’t win… argentina 2018 and jerez 2020.
q: your “hardest” rival?
a: jorge lorenzo
q: your favourite spanish circuit?
a: aragon… but with jerez’ atmosphere
q: with whom would you have liked to race?
a: doohan or stoner.
q: would you sign (i. e. be okay with) for winning another championship but only the one?
a: i would sign retiring without another injury. as regards winning another championship or not… im obviously going for it.
q: is it more “easy” (=likely? not exactly, more like, with more ease) that you win this years championship or that barca (fc barcelona) wins the champions league?
He tries so hard to be different and special and not like other girls... except that isn't what he said now, is it? There's a difference between disagreeing with "the regulations are bad" and saying "don't like it? Retire".
He's pretending that he took the opposite stance, and his stupid fans are defending him, when in fact he said something that had nothing to do with the regulations. Cause he knows the only way he can get attention is by trying to rage bait. God knows his driving skills aren't good enough to warrant attention 😂
It's not even ragebait anymore, it's just average man-induced eyeroll. He's literally the equivalent of an edgy 14 year old making insensitive jokes during class to get a reaction cause mommy and daddy work all day and ignore him at home. It's actually sad, idk how anyone can act like a teen then demand respect. Like... act your age, you're a grown man...
I'd respect him more if he owned up to it and took the backlash at face value, instead of pulling "i was just kidding1!1!" whenever he gets hate
as a queer cis woman who is very straight-passing and femme in a conservative state, I am getting pretty frustrated with all of the scene-y LA weho gays and the keyboard queers saying that actors NEED to disclose their sexuality like
the ancient texts (queer as folk) have been forgotten and this is my punishment
everybody giving connor storrie his flowers is correct but i have to say it must be so hard for renowned freak hudson williams to put on this boring canadian boy facade
babymarc timeline based on mat oxley’s bio and a couple notes by yours truly
20 may 1992 - marc’s conception the day barca won the champions league for the first time.
17 feb 1993 - marc is born :3
christmas 1997 - 4yo marc asks for ‘a bike to make jumps’ and is gifted a yamaha pw50, a mini dirt bike.
edit by me: the thing i wonder about is what year it actually was bc marc always says he asked the reyes magos (three wise kings) for his bike bc in spain, kids get their presents on the day of the three wise kings on 6 jan, not 25 dec. since marc also says he was four years old when he got the present, i always assumed this was actually 6 jan 1998 and he would turn five years old about a month and a half later. this theory seems to also be supported by the fact that he was not significantly bigger by what seems to be summer 1998 (see below).
summer 1998 - 5yo marc enters his first moto competition in moto club segre's (the moto club his parents were members of) kids’ enduro event, with his pw and his stabilisers.
edit by me: unconfirmed anecdote from that first race is apparently that the race was two laps around some "circuit" and julia asked marc after one lap if he wanted to stop since, yk, its an enduro event, the laps were long. but marc said no, he wants to finish and did finish his two laps, albeit last.
edit by me: eventually he could ride without stabilisers!!! btw!!!
1999 - julia buys a secondhand KTM SX50 off-road motocross bike for marc to compete on in both enduro and also motocross.
2000 - 7yo marc competes in the catalan junior motocross championship for the first time and finishes runner-up.
2001 - 8yo marc competes [edit by me: among other competitons… he was doing enduro, mx, flat track…] in the catalan junior motocross championship for the second year and wins the title. he loves motocross, and he loves winning.
a family friend [edit by me: jaume curcó] advises julia to let marc compete in road racing which until then was out of the question financially for the marquez alenta family. however, starting in 2001, the catalan moto federation created a low-cost minibike road racing championship, the conti cup, in which marc could compete. marc, however, was NOT thrilled. he wanted to keep racing motocross, because he was winning, and the road racing bike was too big.
autumn 2001 - marc’s family is offered assistance by jordi and josep rojas, owners of the team procurve, upon the recommendation of the catalan moto federation. they agree to take marc on in their team for the conti cup the following year and sponsor marc's road racing.
2002 - 9yo marc gives up on motocross and enduro to focus entirely on road racing in the conti cup for team procurve on the conti minibikes. he finishes the championship third in his first season of road racing.
guim roda, in charge of the procurve team for the rojas brothers, introduces marc to dirt track and flat track as a serious form of training.
2003 - 10yo marc graduates to ‘grown-up’ racetracks such as montmelo and calafat to race in the open racc 50cc series (a catalan road racing series) for team procurve. he wins the championship in his first attempt.
he runs the number 35 since it was guim roda's old racing number.
2004 - 11yo marc graduates from minibikes to motorcycles, taking part in the 125cc catalan championship alongside teammate pol espargaro for team racc impala led by guim roda.
his honda rs125 is a version of the 125cc world championship bike ridden by andrea dovizioso to win the 125cc world championship title that year. however, marc’s team created a bunch of custom parts so tiny marc is actually able to ride the rs125, changing the fuel tank, handlebars and footpegs to suit his height.
the 2004 125cc catalan championship also marked the year marc started using the “93”, mostly by coincidence. to speed up the enlisting process, roda and his team picked high numbers for their riders - marc got 93 and pol 94. marc, unwilling to give up his 35, was dismayed at first but then pacified by the apparently made up explanation of roda picking 93 since it was his birth year.
marc finishes the championship in second place behind pol.
2005 - emilio alzamora takes over as marc’s manager upon the request of julia and marc switches to riding for team monlau.
12yo marc has a hard time getting on with the bike at first until he convinces emilio to ask his former team at racc impala for his custom parts - the handlebar and footpegs, which were willingly gifted to marc.
marc wins the 125cc catalan championship in his second year.
edit by me: during the same time he competed and won in the catalan championship for 85cc. for fun, i guess?
november 2005 - jordi castella (24yo) meets 12yo marc (1.29m, 29kg) at the presentation for emilio’s 2006 125cc monlau CEV team. he will stay integral part of marc’s crew until marc will leave hrc at the end of 2023. jordi is scared shitless of letting someone that tiny ride a bike that goes 225kph.
2006 - 13yo marc keeps competing in the 125cc catalan championship for emilio’s monlau team and wins it for a second year in a row.
marc also makes his CEV debut, riding for emilio’s monlau team. he finishes the season in eighth position, riding a production honda rs125, a slower bike than the championship-winning factory derby.
he finishes the season in eighth position.
2007 - 14yo marc races in his second CEV season for the same monlau team, this time on factory KTMs. he crashes in four out of seven races and wins in jerez, finishing the season in ninth position.
according to jordi, marc's trouble was his lack of own-weight in a series that now had a minimum weight requirement. the ballast they added to marc's bike and suit was unwieldy and made steering difficult while marc's corner speed meant he very often crashed out bc he lost control of the bike with that amount of weight added.
nevertheless his talent was apparent and he became a world championship rider for the 2008 season.
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